ON-WAFER NOISE-PARAMETER MEASUREMENTS AT NIST

NIST has developed the capability to measure noise parameters on a wafer in the 1 – 12.4 GHz range. We briefly describe the measurement method and the uncertainty analysis and present results of measurements on a very poorly matched transistor.

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